Karl is a Devil and God is a Bullet

It took the release of the trailer for this to smack me upside the head and remember -- God is a Bullet, the next movie from director Nick Cassavetes that stars our boy Karl Glusman as a tatted-up satanic punk terrorizing a bountifully stached Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Maika Monroe, has been on my radar for awhile; ever since I first saw some photos from the set and tweeted them in a thread in July of 2021: 

Lots of photos of Nick Cassavetes' new film GOD IS A BULLET (starring Maika Monroe, Nikolaj-Coster-Waldau, January Jones, Jamie Foxx) on this Instagram https://t.co/YimJzBLSO5 including co-star & MNPP-fave Karl Glusman serving up a WHOLE LOT OF LOOK pic.twitter.com/kpT4YMm9Tm

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 12, 2021

(click for more) Yes it's a lot of look, but Karl is making a meal out of it, right? He's good like that. Anyway I guess the movie is based on a true story (and based on a book) about a detective trying to figure out what happened to his daughter, who joined a cult -- Nikolaj is the detective while Monroe (who previously co-starred with Glusman in the fantastic thriller Watcher of course) is a woman who escaped from the cult; she goes along to help. 

Anyway as I said we've got a trailer! Watch:

And yes Jamie Foxx and Jonathan Tucker are there too.
The movie is getting released on July 11th. Thoughts?

And I've got more pictures of Karl after the jump...

God Morning, World

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Like the caption says that there is a time-lapse video of Jonathan Tucker, eternal stud, getting his tatoos applied for his roles in Nick Cassavetes' film God is a Bullet, which hit theaters this past weekend. I have posted about this movie a lot because it stars, besides Tuck, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Karl Glusman, two long-time MNPP faves. (Also Maika Monroe and we like her too, albeit for different reasons.) So why if I have posted about this movie a million times have I not seen or reviewed this movie? Just busy-ness. There is no good story here. I didn't have the time. I didn't see Nick Cassavetes on the street and scream "NEPOBABY!!!" in his face and get banned or anything. Anyway I would still like to see it, and will probably when it hits streaming. And all of that said -- good morning! I'm running a little late this Monday due to subway issues so let's just jump in. By which I mean y'all hit the jump for a few bonus photos that Karl Glusman shared of his own make-up transformation in God is a Bullet...  

Good Morning, Gratuitous Garrett Wareing

All it usually takes is an actor getting one sizzling photoshoot that grabs my eye -- the greatest example being Chris Evans' legendary shoot for Flaunt magazine of course -- and even if you've never made an impression on me with the whole "acting" thing I'll still file your name away for further reference. But with Garrett Wareing here, who's been acting since he was 12 (all of 12 years ago), he's had several shoots over the past few years that should've caught my eye but... didn't. Until this week that is, when...

... the latest one for Vulcan magazine appeared. And consider my eye caught. But after doing some digging I found several earlier photoshoots that should've done the trick (his Instagram was especially helpful in this regard) so now we'll play catch-up and post them all. Acting-wise the only thing I've seen Mr. Wareing in appears to be the 2023 film God is a Bullet where he was opposite Nicolaj Koster-Waldau and Karl Glusman, but there was a lot going on in that movie (obviously given those two names I just named) so I didn't notice him. Sorry, Garrett! That said...

... he is in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's infamous short story The Long Walk that Constantine director Francis Lawrence has directed, and which also stars Cooper Hoffman, Charlie Plummer, David Jonsson, Judy Greer, and Mark Hammil, so I assume 2025 will be the year this beautiful boy leaves a mark. I can say that assuredly because he already has, looking through these photos! (God I love furry blonds.) So hit the jump and brand him on your brains too...

I Am Link

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--- Putting The Gore On - This is some super groovy news -- Hannibal creator and friend-of-MNPP Bryan Fuller is taking over the next print issue of Fangoria magazine as a "special guest editor" -- there will be Hannibal stuff, hooray, but also a ton of the usually awesome and wonderful idiosyncratic stuff we know Bryan adores. Listen to this awesomeness:

"... including an appreciation of Tony Scott’s stylish vampire classic THE HUNGER, a look at classic horror movie novelizations, a sneak peek at the impending remake of Stephen King’s IT, features on killer animal flicks, meals prepared and served within the pages of Bram Stoker’s DRACULA and so much more…"

--- And Speaking of Hannibal, that show gets name-dropped as a touchstone (it's going to be a future touch-stone for so much, you can already tell) for the team making MTV's Scream series, say the producers of the show to BuzzFeed.  They also mention Friday Night Lights and Twin Peaks.

--- Big Strip - Some muscle-head that's a regular on Ellen's show (supposedly her gardener - I suppose in Los Angeles gardeners look like him but I'm not sure I buy their whole spiel wholeheartedly) has a bit-part in Magic Mike XXL and he took her camera crew on set and yadda yadda Joe Manganiello and Channing Tatum and stripping oh my. I haven't actually watched this video yet; y'all can tell me whether it's actually worth my time (aka does he stumble upon the actors having an orgy?)

--- Gay of Thrones - Besides all the controversial raping going on over at Game of Thrones there's been another adjustment slash addition to the new season - the upping of the gay-bashing ante with the religious discrimination coming into play. And like Sansa's scene, I actually think this is another improvement from the books transition to screen. Also I couldn't remember how the Margaery stuff played out in the books until that link reminded me, so that was helpful.

--- Prickly Pair - Clive Barker has a brand new Pinhead book out this week called The Scarlet Gospels and my pal Sean interviewed the author over at Grantland. It's weird, one of my earliest memories of knowing Sean was walking past him interviewing Clive Barker like fifteen years ago. (We used to work together.) Full circle! Anyway I can't decide if I should read the interview before or after I read the book though, so I'm waiting. If one of you wants to bite the bullet, go to town, and let me know. Anyway Pinhead huzzah!

--- Lip Smacking - The first scene from Gaspar Noé's 3D porn flick Love (plus another NSFW due to female bits picture) has popped up thanks to Cannes and sexy providence, you can watch it over at The Playlist. It's that cute dude Karl Glusman (who we've taken note of a couple of times now) making out with two ladies for awhile, basically.Still no definite release date but it'll probably be sometime this year.

--- One Moore Man - This news is several days old but I keep forgetting to post it - Chris O'Dowd, so adorable in Bridesmaids and on Christopher Guest's show Family Tree (that show really grew on me; I wish it was coming back), is going to be the male lead in Nicole Holofceneer's next movie, the counterfieting one starring Julianne Moore that we told you about here. We love him, we love Nicole and we love Juli - love love!

--- Hacks Slash - The producers of the new Friday the 13th movie have heard our whining and complaining and they are not going to make the new one a found-footage film. I actually never had a huge problem with the found-footage thing; I've liked quite a few found-footage movies in my day... but it was maybe a weird fit with this specific franchise. But I could also see it being an interesting experiment, if they took it seriously. That said, these are the same guys who made the last godawful Friday movie, so I don't consider them terribly serious people. I don't know why they're behaving as if it's so goddamned complicated though - take one Jason Voorhees, add him to one Summer Camp full of male and female sluts, and press go. Ninety minutes later, the end. Voila, millions of dollars. I have been saying this for ages now.
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